MONITORING REPORT ISLAMABAD: The launching of channel by the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) and National Agriculture Research Council (NARC) is still remains uncertain as it was due to be started in December last. The agro TV channel was designed to teach new farming techniques in regional languages and improve farm productivity across the country.
“Everything was in place – the equipment, the studio – and the only ingredient missing was the commercial broadcast licence for the channel,” said Dr Zafar Altaf, the former PARC chairman who was recently removed from his position, while talking to the media here last week.
He believes that his unrelenting demand for funds might have prompted the government to remove him from his post.
“TV channel is one of the big projects by the PARC for which I was asking the government to release funds. They do not realise that the investment into the channel may be Rs 30 million by private investors but the opportunity cost is really high,” Altaf said.
http://www.technologytimes.pk/mag/2011/jan11/issue04/fate_of_parc_agro_tv.php
“Everything was in place – the equipment, the studio – and the only ingredient missing was the commercial broadcast licence for the channel,” said Dr Zafar Altaf, the former PARC chairman who was recently removed from his position, while talking to the media here last week.
He believes that his unrelenting demand for funds might have prompted the government to remove him from his post.
“TV channel is one of the big projects by the PARC for which I was asking the government to release funds. They do not realise that the investment into the channel may be Rs 30 million by private investors but the opportunity cost is really high,” Altaf said.
http://www.technologytimes.pk/mag/2011/jan11/issue04/fate_of_parc_agro_tv.php
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